Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-07

nists and between all the other nations that
are hying At each others throats and command
peace and dlsband armies, and harness Tor
the plow the war horses now being hltchcd to
ammunition wagons, or saddled for cavalry
charge. That time must come, or through
tno increased facility for shooting men aud
blowlng up cities and whelming hosts
To instant death, that we can kill
u regiment easier than we could once
XIII company, and kill brigade easier
than we could once Kill a regiment, the patent
ohces OF the world more pusY than over IN
recognizing new enXncrY of destruction, the
human race will after awhile go lighting with
oHe arm, and hobbing with one foot, and
stumbling along with one eye, and some IN
genlous inventor inspired OF the archangel of
all mischief will contrlve machine that
VIII bore n hole TO the earth's centre, and
some desperate nation Will throw into that
hole enough dynamite to blow TINS hulk OF a
planet into fragments, dropping like meteorle
stones on surrounding stellar habitations.
But ths shall not be. for whatever else let
go, hang on TO my Bible, which tells me that
the biacksmith's shop shall yet come To- It's
grandest use when the warrior aud the hus-
bandman shall enter it side by side, and the
soldier shall throw into its bank of fires his
sword, ana the farmer shall pick 1t up
plowshare, and the straightest spear shall
be bent INTO n crook at each end, and then cut
in two, ard what WAS one spear shall be two
pruning forks. Down with Molooh and up
with Christ! Let no more war horses eat out
OF the manger where Jesus was born.
Peace! Forever roll of the sky the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and oala-
mancas aud Borudinos and Sedans and
roll into the heavens the peaceful vapOrs from
the chlmneys of farmhouses, and asylums,
and churches, and capitals of Christian
nations, and, as the sunlight strikes through
these vapors they will write in letters of jot
and gold all over the sky from horizon 20
zenith: "Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men," Then let
all the men Of war nre broadRide, and aU
the f0rts thunder forth resoundinx yolloy,
and the earth be girdIed with the cannonade
over the tnal victory OF the truth.
While tn nkipg OF these things looked ont
from my window, and the wind was violently
blowing. And ] saw from many chimneys
the smoke tossed IN the air and whtrled In
great velocity, volume after volume, fold after
fold, and carried on the swift wind were the
great pil lars of smoke, And helped by Solo
mon In the text saw the speed Of the Church
symbol Led. Do you realize the momentum N
the Church of God Is under? Why. the smoke
OF a chimney on the top of Mount Washington
when the wind is blowing sixty miles the
hour, is slow as compared with the ceerity
of good influences. For nfty- nine centuries
the devil had 1t his own way among the ma
lions. Nearly all the great missionary move
menis have been started within the century.
and see what one centurv has done To recover
the world from hfty-nine centuries of devas-
taton. What great revivals! VIII nj mighty
churches What saved mIllionsl What ad-
vancinR civilization In all the United states,
Great Britain. Ireland, France, Germany Italy,
full freedom TO worship God according TO con-
science. Along the coasts OF China, Japan
ana Africa the batteries are planted which
are TO take all these empires for God and
civilization. From the ruins of Babylon and
Assyria and Nineveh and the valleys OF the
Nile combinations have been eXhumed prov
ing to all fair minded men that the Bible is
the tTuest book ever written. The mythOo-
ge5 of Egypt were found to have embodied
Ia them the knowledge OF mans expulsion
from Paradise, and the sacrifice of a great
emancipator. Moses account of the crea-
tion, corroborated by the hammer of Chris
tian geoogists; the oldest nrofane writers,
Ike HirOmus. HelanlCus and Berosus, con-
llrming the Bible account OF ancient longevl-
ty, Tactus and tlny confirming the
Bible accounts OF DESTROYED SoddOm and
Gomorrah: Tacitu4 and Porphyry telling the
same story of Christ rs Matthew and Luke
told; MaCrobius telling Of the massacre Of
children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketch
ing the darkness at the crucifxOn. II is DEM
onstrated TO all honest men that 1t Is not so
certain that William Cullen Bryant wrote
ThanatOpsis or LOnRfeilow wrote Hiawatha
as that God by the hand OF prophet and apos-
tie wrote the Bible. All the wise men in
science, and law, and medicine, and ltera-
ture, and merchandise are gradually coming
to believe in Christianity, and soon there will
be no people who disbelieve IN 1t except those
cDnsDlcuous for lack of brain or men with
two families who do not like the Bible be-
cause 1t rehukes their swInieh propensites.
The time NJ Fastening when there will be
no in1dels left except liber,ines and harlols
and murdererS. MILLIONS OF CnflStlhnB where
once there were thousands. and thousands
where once there were hundreds. WHAT n
bright evening this, the evening Of the nine
teenth century! And the twentieth century,
which will dawn in thirteen years from now.
Will. in my opinion. bring universal victory
for Christ ana the church, that now ie march
Ing on with step double quick or. II you pre-
fer the figure OF the text, ID being swept on in
the mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
grand and majestic and swIfI, !tO pillars of
smoke.
on. come into the Church through Christ
the door, \ door more glorious than that of
the Temple of Hercules, which had two pill
lars, and one was gold and the other emerald
Come in to- day! Come in and be ono OF the
eternal victors! The world you leave behind
is a poor world and it will burn and pAss of
ike pillars OF smoke. Whether the final con-
hagratiOn will start In the coal mines OF
Pennsylvania whicn, in some places, have for
many years been burning and eating luto the
heart OF the mountains; or whether il shall
begin near the California geysers, or whether
from out the furnaces Of COtouaXI and
Nesuyius ana StrOfnnOli, IL shall burst forth
npon the astonished nations. ! make no
prophecy, but all Reoogsts tell ~
that we stand on the lid OF world
the heart Of winch Is a raging roaring, awlui
flame, and some day God will let the red
monsters out Of their imprisonment OF CEN
turies, and New York on fire in 1898, and
Charleston on fire in 1865, and Chicago on Gre
IN ls7l, and Boston on IRE In 1872 were only
liSe one eparE from blacksmilh's forge as
winch will be seen IN other worlds, But
gradually the flames will lessen and the world
will become great living coal. and that will
take on Ashen hue, and then our ruined
y anet will begin to smoke. and the noun
taIns viii smoke. and the valleys Will smoke,
and the islands will smoke. and the seas Will
smoke. and the cities will smoke and the five
continents Will be five pillars OF smoke. But
the black vapors will begin to lessen In height
and density, and then viii become hardly
visible TO those who look upon It from the Sky
galleries and after awhile from just one point
there will curl UP a thin solitary vapor, and
then even that VIII vanish, and there VIII be
nDlhing left except tho charred ruins OF
burned -out world, the corpse Of dead star,
he ashes OF an extinguished planet, u fallen
pillar Of smoke.
But that Will not interfere with your invest
ments If you have taken Christ as your
saviour. Secure heaven as your eternal
home, you can look down upon dismantled,
disrupted and dem0iohed earth without any
perturbation.
"When wrapped in fire the realms Of ether
glow,
And heavens last thunder shake the earth
below.
Thou. und!smayed, shalt o'cr the ruins smile.
Ana light thy torch vt natures funeral pile"
Laurens superior Court.
DUBLIN, GA, Feb. 6.-SuperIor Court
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